Application Understanding

Application Understanding is Crucial

Enterprise applications are at the heart of every successful business, so when they don’t operate at optimum efficiency, the profitability and stability of the entire enterprise is at risk. Understanding your code base leads to high-quality programs and fewer costly mistakes.

How to Make Application Understanding Easier

To truly understand the code and connections in your application portfolio, you must have end-to-end visibility. By utilizing powerful and accurate Software Intelligence®, you make it easier to catalog and access the what you need, when you need it.

SMART TS XL is an analysis platform that excels in application discovery and understanding. No more hunting through multiple code libraries or checking folders on shared drives for project pieces. IT teams can identify connections between different code languages and platforms, like how mainframe COBOL links to distributed Java. SMART TS XL places the necessary information at your fingertips.

See where program interactions occur, predict impact of changes and follow connected references.

Quickly find error-codes, messages, commands and business logic.

Link trouble tickets and documentation to programs and easily navigate through related items.

Estimate project timelines with Program Complexity Reports that give you metrics like cyclomatics, program length, and a suspected number of bugs.

Analyze program structure with interactive flowcharts.

Cross-platform support for all languages including legacy languages like COBOL and JCL.

Increase team productivity by saving time and resources previously invested in search and discovery.